WeatherGrrrl's Station

Emotional. Amazing, an Oliver Stone movie that’s quite sane and did not drive me mad with frustration. Even though we know our two heroes make it out alive I found the whole experience incredible tense. Listening to the structure creak and moan above them was terrifying and I was seriously afraid for the rescuers trying to free these two men. The insight into the family life was moving and for once the women were fully drawn characters and not cyphers.

A number of characters talked about these events as meaning the US was at war which struck me as an off note. What I remmber from 11th Sept 2001 was the horror and the lack of humanity of a small number of people. How could they? It did not strike me that this meant the West had to launch an offensive to kill untold thousands of human beings.

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Must see. But not great. This is a movie where the important thing is that YOU GET THE MESSAGE. Global climate change is happening and if we don’t pull our fingers out the human race is in big trouble. (The planet doesn’t care ‘cos it’ll go on its merry way and evolution will continue to throw up new and interesting species.)

The informational side of this movie was quite shocking and seeing those diagrams/charts/images really brought it home how perilous things are. The homespun personal reflection side made me slightly nauseous though I do understand how this will appeal to certain segments of the audience who need to be reached. I just don’t need to like it!

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Retro hit. What a blast this movie is. They really didn’t need the opening 20 minute set up sequence. We knew this was pure hokum and by the end of the set up we felt like shouting, ‘show us the m@#$%@ f@#$%@# snakes!!!!!!’. There’s much gratuitousness, silliness and strained credulity but who cares. This was one hell of a ride and brought back fond memories of all those 1970’s disaster movies.

I had to close my eyes for the scary snake attacks, my pointy tool phobia kicked in big time. You have been warned.

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